This seems to say the weight is 1304kg and the dimension is ????mm*5637mm. Weight seems quite high and might include the canister.
PLA Anti-Air Missile (SAM) systems
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It likely is the canister weight, listing bare missile weight doesn't make sense operationally as AFAIK these VLS tubes should come prepackaged as a single unit.
Judging from the model, no. The HQ-16F's rear fins cannot fold and almost completely fill the launch tube.
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Hq9 and A pair hq11 missiles loading into y20
antiterror13
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Wondering how many HQ-9B or HQ-9C can be loaded into single Y-20B
If you mean TEL-worth (i.e., missile canisters mounted on a TEL), then it's definitely only one TEL-worth (perhaps plus a couple additional missile canisters if the remaining spaces permit).
If you mean individual missile canisters, then that's definitely more than one TEL-worth.
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antiterror13
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From the photo from previous post #1786, it seems individual missile canister only?
Do you think common to transport the whole TEL (truck plus the missiles) on Y-20B or by any country (i.e USA or Russia). It is actually interesting point to be able to transport the whole TEL anywhere within China and surrounding (i.e South China sea) or even in further country (i.e Indonesia).
I think only 3 countries have the capabilities, USA, China and Russia
Actually, the Y-20 can carry HQ-9 TELs. In addition, China has also ferried the export variant of the HQ-22 TELs (i.e., FK-3) all the way to Serbia back in 2022 using a few Y-20s.
I don't know how common it is for China to ferry their SAM TELs with their Y-20s, but it is certainly common for the US to ferry Patriot and THAAD TELs using their C-17s and C-5s. For Russia, only their An-124s can ferry SAM TELs of the HQ-9 category (after their An-22 were retired).
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